Highbrow: Some type of story about moving among the Desert Fathers and Mothers (or maybe like Ruis’ “Marx for Beginners”?) and illustrating some of their sayings and doings.

Middlebrow: A slice-of-life style story about the trials and struggles a Mormon missionary – doesn’t have to be about homosexuality.

Lowbrow(?): A Trey Parker/ Matt Stone style “Guide for the Perplexed” about various religions and their beliefs.

I want to do a quasi-historical story about the rise of popularity of Anime from 1990 to 2000 when it was just beginning to become popular. Only, there’s this Government organization that’s devoted to stopping the spread of Anime, upon the fear that it’ll warp the minds of American children due to its portrayal of violence and sex. The visual selling point is that all the Anime characters are caricatured as Pokemon animals. (Testuo as Mewtwo, Rayquazza as Shenron [the Dragonball Dragon], Golgo 13 as Marowak, Black Jack as Chansey, etc)

The organization finds “Otakus” who’ve been corrupted by these Animes, and suck their influence into concealment boxes that look suspuciously like Ghostbusters traps. Througout the years, the boxes become more sophisicated and smaller, becoming more oval, then sphere-shaped. Once exposed to these boxes, these happy-go-lucky teens revert back to being sulking rebelious teens, just as nature intended.

This comic would follow the decline and fall of the organization when, after a major event known only as the “Akira incident” released all their trapped influences who escaped in rays of light from their secure storage. This would later be known as the “Anime Boom”.

The organization’s existence is also under threat from their shadow funders known only as the Rabbit & the Mouse, who’re becoming increasingly skeptical about spending money on an organization that’s becoming increasingly redundant. They don’t see why they should spend so much keeping these agents afloat. After all, it’s not like Anime would ever become more popular than Warner Bros. & Disney cartoons, right?

Around 1997, when Pokemon starts to get popular and the organization is struggling to stay alive, the fans who’d been fighting for Anime rights become concerned about the sudden popularity of the francise, and bemoan that people will only think of Pokemon as the only Anime that exists.

There’s lots more I haven’t included, but I’ve been talking long enough.

Oh wait. That’s unfairly good. Luckily I live in Japan and am ineligible for this.